BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Carolina Population Center - ECPv6.15.17//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Carolina Population Center X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Carolina Population Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20140309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20141102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170331T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170331T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135059Z UID:35844-1490961600-1490965200@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Machine Learning in Population Research DESCRIPTION:Chirayath M. Suchindran\, Ph.D.\, Professor\, Biostatistics\, UNC-Chapel Hill \nSuchindran’s recent publications include a paper that demonstrates the use of mixture models with linear predictors to identify incorrect gestational age in US birth certificates\, a regression analysis of interval censored complex survey data\, an examination of the redistribution techniques to identify the errors in causes of death data\, a paper in Demography that demonstrates the use of event history data to obtain estimates of multistate life table parameters and their standard errors and a paper dealing with the appraisal of biomarker selection methods applicable to HIV/AIDS research. \nSuchindran’s current\, substantive research projects include genetic by context influence on trajectories of adolescent health risk behaviors\, effects of cash transfer and community mobilization on HIV incidence and gender norms among South African young women\, effect of neighborhood SES on coronary heart disease burden in communities and obesity development and CVD risk factor clustering in Filipino women and offspring\, and promoting safe sex among HIV+ women. \nSuchindran’s work will focus on developing methods for data analysis and conduct of collaborative research with CPC researchers that have been initiated currently. The methodological focus will be on the issues related to complex sampling designs and estimation of random effects models with specific complex survey designs with different modes of data collection\, currently being proposed to collect the Add Health Survey wave V. Suchindran will also pursue his research in developing indices of longevity based on Kullback-Leiber divergence measures that involve moments of order three and above (for example\, skewness and kurtosis). Suchindran will also join in the new initiatives in the Department of Biostatistics in developing state-of-the-art methodology for analyzing ‘big data’ (for example\, machine learning techniques for predictive modeling\, dimension reduction) with focus on demographic research. On the collaborative research side\, Suchindran will continue his involvement in several intervention studies where the data collections are about to end. Suchindran will also provide statistical help\, if necessary\, by developing methods for data analysis for CPC researchers. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/machine-learning-in-population-research/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170324T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170324T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T145201Z UID:35843-1490356800-1490360400@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Race\, Nativity\, Aging & Health: Critical Demography and Life Course Perspectives DESCRIPTION:Tyson Brown\, Assistant Professor of Sociology & Director of the Center for Biobehavioral Health Disparities Research\, Duke University \nDr. Brown is an assistant professor of sociology and the director of the Center for Biobehavioral Health Disparities Research at Duke University. He earned his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—where he was also a trainee at the CPC—prior to completing a NIH/NIA postdoctoral fellowship at Duke. Brown’s research draws on life course perspectives and panel data to understand racial inequalities in health and wealth trajectories in middle and late life. He also studies how racial inequalities are gendered and classed\, and the extent to which socio-environmental and psychosocial mechanisms across the life course explain within- and between-group inequalities. His research and training have been supported by funding from the NIH and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/race-nativity-aging-health-critical-demography-and-life-course-perspectives/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170302T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170302T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135058Z UID:35842-1488466800-1488470400@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Demographic Trends in sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Family Planning Programs DESCRIPTION:J. Richard Udry Distinguished Lecture \nJohn Bongaarts\, Ph.D. \nJohn Bongaarts is Vice President and Distinguished Scholar of the Population Council where he has been employed since 1973. He holds a PhD in Physiology and Biomedical Engineering from the University of Illinois and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Population Dynamics at the John’s Hopkins School of Public Health. Bongaarts’ research has focused on a range of population and health issues\, including population projections\, determinants of fertility and mortality trends\, the demographic impact of the AIDS epidemic and population policy options in both the developed and developing world. He has published over 200 papers\, chapters and books. Honors include the Robert J. Lapham Award and the Mindel Sheps Award from the Population Association of America\, and the Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences\, the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences\, and is a Laureate of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/demographic-trends-in-sub-saharan-africa-the-role-of-family-planning-programs/ CATEGORIES:J. Richard Udry Distinguished Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170224T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170224T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135057Z UID:35841-1487937600-1487941200@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Farmer Cognitive Function and Agricultural Productivity Among Farmers in Bahia\, Brazil DESCRIPTION:Leah VanWey\, Professor of Environment and Society and Sociology\, Brown University \nLeah VanWey is a social demographer and environmental social scientist. She currently has two lines of research. One line studies population change\, socioeconomic development\, and environmental change associated with the expansion of mechanized agriculture in Brazil. The second is examining household responses to a payment for reforestation program in the Atlantic Forest in Brazil\, together with the social and environmental impacts of the program. She is committed to interdisciplinary research\, and has worked with anthropologists\, geographers\, demographers\, sociologists\, urban planners\, historians\, geoscientists and ecologists at various times. At Brown\, Professor VanWey has served as Senior Deputy Director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society and Associate Director of the Population Studies and Training Center. She currently serves as Associate Provost for Academic Space. She received her PhD from the University of North Carolina\, where she was a trainee in the Carolina Population Center\, and has previously taught at Indiana University URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/farmer-cognitive-function-and-agricultural-productivity-among-farmers-in-bahia-brazil/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135057Z UID:35840-1487332800-1487336400@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Friends\, genes\, and schools: Evidence from Add Health DESCRIPTION:Ben Domingue\, Assistant Professor\, Stanford Graduate School of Education \nBen Domingue is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. He has two areas of active research. The first focuses on statewide standardized test scores and their uses\, particularly how test scores are used in statistical models that evaluate the effectiveness of teachers and schools. On a technical level\, he also is interested in the extent to which test scores and the data from which they are drawn demonstrate certain desirable properties. The second area of research focuses on the integration of genetic data into social science research. In particular\, he is interested in understanding the genetic architecture of educational attainment and the way in which schools can and do moderate the association between genes and educational attainment. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/friends-genes-and-schools-evidence-from-add-health/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170210T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170210T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135056Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135056Z UID:35839-1486728000-1486731600@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Exemptions from Childhood Vaccination Requirements: A Geographic Analysis DESCRIPTION:Paul L. Delamater\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science at George Mason University \nDr. Paul Delamater is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science at George Mason University. He will be joining the Department of Geography at UNC Chapel Hill in 2017. Dr. Delamater’s research uses Geographic Information Systems and spatial/statistical analysis to better understand the geographic aspects of population health issues\, broadly focusing on health-related behavior and health care utilization. His current research examines non-medical exemptions from childhood vaccination requirements in the United States and the corresponding risk of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks. Another active area of Dr. Delamater’s research is integrating evidence-based approaches in health care planning and regulation. He has provided scientific support to Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services in recent modifications of the state’s policies governing health care services access and availability. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/exemptions-from-childhood-vaccination-requirements-a-geographic-analysis/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170127T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170127T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135056Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135056Z UID:35838-1485518400-1485522000@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Residential segregation\, political power\, and preterm birth in the U.S. 2008-2010 DESCRIPTION:This event is co-sponsored with the Triangle Research Data Center (TRDC) \nClaire Margerison-Zilko\, Michigan State University \nClaire Margerison-Zilko is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Dr. Margerison-Zilko’s research examines the relationships between macro- and individual-level social and economic factors and maternal\, infant\, and child health with a focus on understanding the determinants of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in maternal and child health. With funding from NIH/NICHD\, Dr. Margerison-Zilko is currently examining the impact of the recent Great Recession on adverse birth outcomes in the U.S. She was also recently awarded a K01 Mentored Career Development Award from NIH/NHLBI to examine links between women’s pregnancy health and later-life race and socioeconomic disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD). Another active area of research examines the relationship between perinatal health and aspects of the residential environment such as neighborhood socioeconomic history and racial residential segregation. Dr. Margerison-Zilko has a PhD in Epidemiology an MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the University of California\, Berkeley. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/residential-segregation-political-power-and-preterm-birth-in-the-u-s-2008-2010/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170113T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170113T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135055Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T145235Z UID:35837-1484308800-1484312400@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:The CPC legacy: integration of biological and social perspectives on health DESCRIPTION:Linda Adair\, PhD\nThe value of multidisciplinary and longitudinal approaches to maternal and child health\nLinda Adair’s research focus has a strong life-course focus\, spanning from explorations of determinants of birth outcomes\, to infant feeding and child growth patterns to multidimensional pathways to healthy aging in adults. Her work has taken her from the Philippines (where she leads the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey)\, and China for the study of the emergence of cardiometabolic disease risk\, to South Africa\, Malawi\, and Rwanda\, where her work is focused on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. \nPenny Gordon-Larsen\, PhD\nLinking Environment\, Biology\, Behavior to Cardiometabolic Disease in Population Research\nPenny Gordon-Larsen\, PhD\, is professor and associate chair for research in the department of nutrition at UNC. For over 20 years her work has focused on obesity and its cardiometabolic disease complications\, spanning genetics and the gut microbiome to behavior to environmental research. At the core of this work is the focus on the interplay between environment\, biology\, behavior and disease in relation to global population health. \nKathleen Mullan Harris\, PhD\nSocial\, Behavioral\, and Biological Linkages in Health across the Life Course\nKathleen Mullan Harris is the James E. Haar Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at UNC. Her research focuses on social inequality and health with particular interests in family\, the transition to adulthood\, and social policy. She leads an integrative research program in Add Health to understand the social\, environmental\, behavioral\, biological and genetic linkages in social stratification pathways that lead to health disparities across the life course. \nBarry M. Popkin\, PhD\nAn Economist’s Foray into Global Nutrition and related biomedical areas\nBarry M. Popkin\, PhD\, is the W. R. Kenan\, Jr. distinguished professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). While initially his research work focused on the economics of women’s work and how time constraints were linked with major household health concerns\, his long-term interests have focused on the study of the dynamic shifts in our environment as they affect dietary intake and physical activity patterns and trends and obesity and other nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases –all from a more social science economics perspective. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/the-cpc-legacy-integration-of-biological-and-social-perspectives-on-health/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161202T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161202T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135055Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T145201Z UID:35836-1480680000-1480683600@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Quantification of Biological Aging DESCRIPTION:Dan Belsky\nAssistant Professor of Medicine\, Duke University\nJacobs Foundation Research Fellow \nDan is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine and the Social Science Research Institute and Jacobs Foundation Research Fellow (2016-2018). Dan works at the intersection of genetics\, the social and behavioral sciences\, and public health. His work brings together discoveries from the cutting edge of genome science and longitudinal data from population-based cohorts to identify mechanisms that cause accelerated health decline in older age. Dan’s work takes a life-span approach that encompasses research on cohorts of children\, young and middle-aged adults\, and older adults. His goal is is to understand why socioeconomically disadvantaged populations suffer increased morbidity in older age and earlier mortality\, and to devise strategies for intervention to mitigate these health inequalities. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/quantification-of-biological-aging/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161118T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161118T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135054Z UID:35835-1479470400-1479474000@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Contraception\, a Social Vaccine: Part I DESCRIPTION:Amy TsuiProfessor\, Department of Population\, Family\, and Reproductive Health\nJohn Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health \nAmy Tsui is Professor in the Department of Population\, Family and Reproductive Health. She directed the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health from 2002-2013 and prior to that was director of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests relate to contraception\, fertility and related reproductive health behaviors in low-income settings. She serves as a Senior Technical Advisor to the Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 project which conducts rapid monitoring surveys of family planning indicators in 11 countries using smart-phone technology. She also headed the Family Health and Wealth Study\, a longitudinal study of nearly 5000 families in six national peri-urban settings in Africa. She has published on the evolution of the international family planning movement\, estimation of maternal deaths averted by contraceptive use\, and variation in unwanted fertility with contraceptive service access in developing countries. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and serves or has served on a various scientific review and advisory committees of federal and international agencies and boards of non-governmental organizations. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/contraception-a-social-vaccine-part-i/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161111T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161111T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135054Z UID:35834-1478865600-1478869200@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Mixed Methods in Population Research DESCRIPTION:Clare Barrington\,\nUNC-CH Associate Professor of Health Behavior and CPC Faculty Fellow \nProfessor Barrington’s research examines social and structural influences on health and health behaviors\, with a focus on HIV prevention and health care among female sex workers\, men who have sex with men (MSM)\, and transgender women in Latin America and Latino migrants in the United States. She has been conducting community-based research in the Dominican Republic for over 15 years. In collaboration with the Centro de Orientacion e Investigacion Integral (COIN)\, she studied the social networks of male clients of female sex workers. Most recently\, with support from USAID\, Dr. Barrington has been studying a cohort of 250 female sex workers living with HIV in Santo Domingo and their male partners. The aim is to improve understanding of the factors influencing their achievement of optimal HIV outcomes\, and to assess feasibility and initial effects of a multi-level intervention called Abriendo Puertas (Opening Doors). In North Carolina\, Barrington has been studying the intersection between social networks\, migration\, and HIV among Mexican migrants. She currently leads the qualitative formative research and evaluation of a HRSA project to promote early detection and linkage to care for HIV among Mexican MSM and transgender women in North Carolina. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/mixed-methods-in-population-research/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161104T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161104T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135054Z UID:35833-1478260800-1478264400@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Mothers\, Children\, and Child Care in the U.S. DESCRIPTION:Robert Crosnoe\nProfessor and Chair of Sociology\, The University of Texas at Austin \nAbstract: \nThe state of early child care in a society—how accessible it is to families in need\, how good it is for children—is a core component of the health\, wellbeing\, and productivity of the population\, but the state of early child care in the U.S. is characterized by considerable inequality. This presentation draws on several years of quantitative research with the NICHD Study of Early Child Care to show how a variety of family disadvantages translate into disadvantages in the early child care market\, undermining the future prospects of children and mothers\, and then explores media coverage of this long-running federal study to demonstrate how cultural debates about maternal employment\, intensive mothering\, and the best interests of children slow progress in providing high-quality child care to families. \nBio: \nRobert Crosnoe is the C.B. Smith\, Sr. Centennial Chair #4 at the University of Texas at Austin\, where he is Chair of the Department of Sociology and a faculty member in the Population Research Center. Prior to coming to Texas\, he received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Crosnoe conducts mixed-methods research on the connections among health\, child/adolescent development\, and education and the contributions of these connections to socioeconomic and immigration-related inequalities in American society. This work has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development\, National Science Foundation\, Institute of Education Sciences\, National Institute of Justice\, William T. Grant Foundation\, and Foundation for Child Development. His books include Mexican Roots\, American Schools: Helping Mexican Immigrant Children Succeed (Stanford University Press)\, Fitting In\, Standing Out: Navigating the Social Challenges of High School to Get an Education (Cambridge University Press)\, and Asset or Distraction: Physical Attractiveness and the Accumulation of Social and Human Capital from Adolescence and Young Adulthood (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development with Rachel Gordon)\, and his new books are Healthy Learners: A Whole Child Approach to Disparities in Early Education (Teachers College Press with Claude Bonazzo and Nina Wu)\, and Debating Early Child Care: The Relationship between Developmental Science and the Media (Cambridge University Press with Tama Leventhal). Dr. Crosnoe is Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Collaborative on Development in Context and President-Elect of the Society for Research on Adolescence\, serves on the Governing Councils for the Society for Research in Child Development and Council on Contemporary Families\, and just completed his term as Deputy Editor of Journal of Marriage and Family. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/mothers-children-and-child-care-in-the-u-s/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161028T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161028T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135053Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135053Z UID:35832-1477656000-1477659600@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Sex\, Gender\, and Health DESCRIPTION:Susan Short\nProfessor of Sociology and Director of the Population Studies and Training Center\nThe Brown University \nDr. Short’s research examines changing social and demographic environments and their implications for family dynamics\, gender\, health\, and well-being. \nShe has examined economic reform and population policy in China\, the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Lesotho\, and changes in the organization of women’s work and parenting in the U.S. Short’s research is characterized by diverse methodologies\, including demographic\, ethnographic\, spatial\, and genomic approaches. Her recent work integrates social and biological perspectives to investigate the processes through which social experiences are embodied over the life course\, producing variation in health and well-being. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/sex-gender-and-health/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161014T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161014T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135052Z UID:35831-1476446400-1476450000@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:The Individual’s Choice of Facility for Maternal Health and Family Planning Services in a Dense Urban Environment: The Case of Senegal DESCRIPTION:Dr. David Guilkey\nUNC-CH Professor of Economics and CPC Faculty Fellow \nProfessor Guilkey is an applied econometrician with a microeconomics focus. Much of his work has involved the use of large survey data sets that involve limited dependent variables and the presence of endogenous right-hand-side variables. \nDr. Ilene Speizer\nUNC-CH Research Professor of Maternal & Child Health and\nCPC Faculty Fellow\nCPC Training Program Postdoctoral Alumna \nProfessor Speizer is trained as a demographer and evaluation researcher\, and has led research and evaluation studies on family planning\, HIV prevention\, intimate partner violence\, and adolescent reproductive health programs in sub-Saharan Africa\, Haiti\, and India. She is currently the co-Principal Investigator and Technical Deputy Director for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded Measurement\, Learning\, and Evaluation (MLE) for the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative project. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/the-individuals-choice-of-facility-for-maternal-health-and-family-planning-services-in-a-dense-urban-environment-the-case-of-senegal/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161007T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161007T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135052Z UID:35830-1475841600-1475845200@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Do food security interventions benefit women?: Gender and groundnuts in Zambia DESCRIPTION:Siân Curtis\, UNC-CH \nProfessor Curtis is a statistical demographer whose research and administrative efforts have focused on monitoring and evaluation of global population and health programs and family planning and reproductive health. As the past Director of the MEASURE Evaluation Project (from 2002-12)\, she provided technical direction and leadership to a portfolio of over 100 individual monitoring and evaluation activities in over 25 countries. Curtis continues to play an important role in the MEASURE Evaluation Project as a Senior Evaluation Specialist with responsibilities for designing and leading evaluations related to international health and food security projects\, and is director of the Family Planning Country Action Process Evaluation Project. She has particular expertise in the design and analysis of complex surveys and previously worked as a senior analyst with the Demographic and Health Survey Project at Macro International. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/do-food-security-interventions-benefit-women-gender-and-groundnuts-in-zambia/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160930T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160930T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135051Z UID:35829-1475236800-1475240400@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:A sociogenomic approach to fertility: combining demography\, sociology and molecular genetics DESCRIPTION:Melinda Mills is the Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford and Editor-in-Chief of the European Sociological Review. She leads the SOCIOGENOME and several other related projects\, which combine demographic\, sociological\, biological and molecular genetic research to study the life course. Her interests also include the impact of nonstandard schedules on family life\, assortative mating and internet dating and research methods. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/a-sociogenomic-approach-to-fertility-combining-demography-sociology-and-molecular-genetics/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160923T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160923T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135051Z UID:35828-1474632000-1474635600@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Does Changing the Social Environment in Early Childhood Matter? Emerging Causal Evidence from Pakistan DESCRIPTION:Joanna Maselko\, UNC-CH \nJoanna (‘Asia’) Maselko is a social and psychiatric epidemiologist whose research aims to identify mechanisms through which the social environment impacts the development of common neuropsychiatric disorders. Anchored in a life-course developmental framework\, a large portion of her research focuses on the intergenerational transmission of risk and the role of the environment in altering socio-emotional and cognitive developmental trajectories. \nDr. Maselko is currently the PI of the SHARE CHILD study\, a cluster RCT set in rural Pakistan\, whose goal is to investigate mechanisms through which maternal depression\, and its treatment\, impacts child development in the first three years of life. A central question is to examine heterogeneity of treatment effects by social contextual factors such as socioeconomic status\, family composition\, and parenting. \nA separate line of research focuses on religious engagement and health\, with a special interest on how gender\, race/ethnicity\, and socioeconomic status affect this relationship over the lifecourse. \nThe majority of Dr. Maselko’s research is located in South Asia\, with the broad goal of expanding the field of social and psychiatric epidemiology globally through anchoring research in a cross-cultural context and addressing disparities in global health URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/does-changing-the-social-environment-in-early-childhood-matter-emerging-causal-evidence-from-pakistan/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160916T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160916T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135050Z UID:35827-1474027200-1474030800@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Religion and Depression in Adolescence DESCRIPTION:Jane Fruehwirth\, UNC-CH \nJane Cooley Fruehwirth is an economist with research interests in the determinants of social\, economic and racial inequality. A central theme to her research is the role of social context in shaping disadvantage\, particularly in the context of schools and friendships. She also studies education policies at the elementary and secondary school level that are aimed at improving disadvantaged students’ outcomes\, such as teaching practice\, accountability and grade retention. More recently\, her research delves into the determinants of mental health in adolescence\, particularly the role of religion and friends URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/religion-and-depression-in-adolescence/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160909T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160909T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135050Z UID:35826-1473422400-1473426000@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Health Systems Decentralization in Rural Honduras: Little Evidence for Improvements in Maternal and Child Health DESCRIPTION:Dr. Elisabeth Root\nAssociate Professor of Geography; Associate Professor of Epidemiology; The Ohio State University\nCPC Training Program Predoctoral Alumna \nProfessor Root’s research is situated at the intersection of geography and public health. Using spatial statistical methods and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)\, she integrates socioeconomic and environmental context into studies of disease processes and health behaviors to better understand geographical patterns of human health across diverse settings\, examine how local and regional context drives these patterns of disease\, and model the effect of major health and development interventions across these diverse settings. Dr. Root’s main approach involves collecting extensive survey and health data and combining these data with areal demographic/economic indicators and environmental data. She then use spatial statistical methods and GIS to quantify and assess the spatial/contextual factors which alter disease processes and programmatic effects. Her active research projects are located in Honduras\, Bangladesh\, and the Philippines as well as the U.S. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/health-systems-decentralization-in-rural-honduras-little-evidence-for-improvements-in-maternal-and-child-health/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160422T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160422T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135110Z UID:35866-1461326400-1461330000@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:The Effect of Ethnic Enclaves on Job Matching and Wage Growth: Evidence using Co-worker and City of Birth Networks in the LEHD DESCRIPTION:Dr. Ted Mouw\nUNC-CH Associate Professor of Sociology and CPC Faculty Fellow \nIn his current research on immigration\, Professor Mouw is analyzing the effect of immigration on the labor market outcomes of native workers using a unique data set of restricted-access employer-employee data (the Longitudinal Employer Household Data “LEHD”) at the Triangle Census Research Data Center. The LEHD is an administrative data set on the quarterly earnings of all privately employed workers in participating states\, constructed from unemployment insurance records. This project uses longitudinal data on over 93 million workers in 30 states from 1992-2008. By following these workers over time\, Mouw is able to analyze the way that native workers adapt to immigration by modelling earnings growth and firm\, industry\, and geographic mobility. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/the-effect-of-ethnic-enclaves-on-job-matching-and-wage-growth-evidence-using-co-worker-and-city-of-birth-networks-in-the-lehd/ CATEGORIES:2015-16 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160408T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160408T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135109Z UID:35865-1460116800-1460120400@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Dietary Acculturation among Mexican-origin Children DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jenifer Van Hook\nProfessor of Sociology & Demography; Center Director\, Population Research Institute\, The Pennsylvania State University \nDr. Jennifer Van Hook is Professor of Sociology and Demography and Center Director of the Population Research Institute at The Pennsylvania State University. She conducts demographic research on the settlement and incorporation patterns of U.S. immigrants\, with one strand of her work focusing on illegal immigration. Her work also focuses on the social\, economic\, and health assimilation of immigrants and their descendants. \nDr. Van Hook received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin\, and has held positions at the Urban Institute and Bowling Green State University before joining the faculty at Penn State. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Population Association of America and the Census Scientific Advisory Committee. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/dietary-acculturation-among-mexican-origin-children/ CATEGORIES:2015-16 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160304T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160304T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135109Z UID:35864-1457092800-1457096400@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Cash Transfers to Prevent HIV Infection: State of the Evidence and Implications for Programs DESCRIPTION:Dr. Audrey Pettifor\nUNC-CH Associate Professor of Epidemiology and\nCPC Faculty Fellow \nDr. Audrey Pettifor is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center. She has conducted research on sexual behavior HIV prevention in sub-Saharan Africa for close to twenty years with a particular focus on young women and structural interventions. Dr. Pettifor is PI of a large NIH funded randomized controlled trial in South Africa (HPTN 068) which examines the impact of a cash transfer conditional on school attendance on HIV incidence among young women. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/cash-transfers-to-prevent-hiv-infection-state-of-the-evidence-and-implications-for-programs/ CATEGORIES:2015-16 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160226T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160226T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135109Z UID:35863-1456488000-1456491600@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Global Estimates of Children’s and Young Person’s Food Insecurity using the Gallup World Poll DESCRIPTION:Dr. Ashu Handa\nUNC-CH Professor of Pubic Policy and CPC Faculty Fellow \nProfessor Handa is currently on-leave from UNC serving as Chief of Social & Economic Policy at UNICEF’s Office of Research-Innocenti\, Florence\, Italy. At UNICEF he leads the Innocenti Report Card Series\, UNICEF’s flagship publication on the well-being of children in rich countries. The 2014 Report Card\, which Handa led\, focused on the impact of the great recession on child poverty\, and was featured in over 100 major media outlets including the Washington Post\, Financial Times\, The Guardian (UK)\, Republica (Italy)\, El Pais (Spain)\, AP\, and Reuters. The current Report Card\, scheduled to be launched in March 2016\, tracks bottom-end inequality among children in 41 rich countries over time\, measured through children’s health\, education and income. Professor Handa is one of eight researchers awarded access to the food security scale that the FAO incorporated into the Gallup World Poll through their Voices of the Hungry project \nWhile at Innocenti\, Dr. Handa continues to be actively engaged in CPC activities. Three CPC predoctoral trainees and four CPC Faculty Fellows visited Innocenti in 2013-14 for workshops and research collaboration. He also continues to actively manage his CPC-based grant portfolio as Principal Investigator on the Transfer Project (Transfer Project)\, a collaboration between CPC\, UNICEF\, FAO and Save the Children. The Transfer Project is a multi-country research initiative to study the impact of national cash transfer programs on poverty and human development. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/global-estimates-of-childrens-and-young-persons-food-insecurity-using-the-gallup-world-poll/ CATEGORIES:2015-16 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160219T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160219T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135108Z UID:35862-1455883200-1455886800@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Selective Migration and the Health of Black Immigrants in the United States DESCRIPTION:Dr. Tod Hamilton\nAssistant Professor of Sociology\, Princeton University \nDr. Tod Hamilton is an Assistant Professor in the Princeton University Department of Sociology and a Faculty Associate of the Office of Population Research. His research interests are in the field of demography\, with an emphasis on immigration and health. His current research evaluates the relative importance of culture and selective migration in explaining differential patterns of stratification between U.S.-born and foreign-born individuals in the United States. Hamilton also explores the degree of health selection among contemporary immigrants to the United States as well as the role that social\, economic\, and health conditions in immigrants’ countries of origin play in explaining variation in their post-migration health in the United States. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/selective-migration-and-the-health-of-black-immigrants-in-the-united-states/ CATEGORIES:2015-16 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160212T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160212T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135107Z UID:35861-1455278400-1455282000@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:The Impact of Intensive Livestock Production on the Disease Ecology of Antibiotic Resistant Staphylococcus DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jill Stewart\nUNC-CH Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences & Engineering \nProfessor Jill Stewart is an environmental health microbiologist who studies links between human and ecosystem health. She is developing novel tools to detect and track pathogens in the environment and she is applying these tools to evaluate how human activities affect the distribution of microbial contaminants. Current research projects include (1) epidemiology studies of bathing beaches impacted by non-point source pollution\, (2) development of stress-response models for forecasting the impacts of development and climate change within watersheds\, and (3) evaluating the evolution and dissemination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the environment and in human and animal populations. These activities are leading to a greater understanding of how environmental conditions affect human health\, and how humans themselves influence this process. At UNC\, Dr. Stewart has a primary appointment in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering\, and is also serves as the Deputy Director of the Center for Galapagos Studies. She also has adjunct appointments in the Department of Marine Sciences and the Curriculum for the Environment & Ecology. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/the-impact-of-intensive-livestock-production-on-the-disease-ecology-of-antibiotic-resistant-staphylococcus/ CATEGORIES:2015-16 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160204T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160204T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135107Z UID:35860-1454587200-1454590800@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Can We Really End Malnutrition by 2030?: The Case For and Against DESCRIPTION:Dr. Lawrence Haddad\nSenior Research Fellow\nInternational Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) \nProfessor Lawrence Haddad is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). He was the Director of the Institute of Development Studies\, Sussex from 2004 to 2014. Prior to that he was a Division Director at IFPRI for 10 years and a Lecturer in Development Economics at the University of Warwick\, UK. His main research interests are at the intersection of poverty\, food insecurity and malnutrition. He is currently serving as the Co-Chair of the Global Nutrition Report\, which has been downloaded over 60\,000 times in the past year. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/can-we-really-end-malnutrition-by-2030-the-case-for-and-against/ CATEGORIES:2015-16 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160129T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160129T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135107Z UID:35859-1454068800-1454072400@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Using Genomics to Prevent Adverse Drug Reactions in Global Populations DESCRIPTION:Dr. Christy Avery\nUNC-CH Assistant Professor of Epidemiology \nChristy Avery is an assistant professor who specializes in cardiovascular epidemiology. Her specific research areas include genetic epidemiology\, pharmacogenomics\, and translation-oriented approaches to assess the burden of cardiovascular diseases in diverse populations. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/using-genomics-to-prevent-adverse-drug-reactions-in-global-populations/ CATEGORIES:2015-16 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160122T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160122T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135106Z UID:35858-1453464000-1453467600@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Household Decision-making\, Gender and Groundnuts in Zambia DESCRIPTION:Dr. Siân Curtis\nAssociate Professor of Maternal & Child Health and CPC Faculty Fellow \nProfessor Curtis is a statistical demographer whose research and administrative efforts have focused on monitoring and evaluation of global population and health programs and family planning and reproductive health. As the past Director of the MEASURE Evaluation Project (from 2002-12)\, she provided technical direction and leadership to a portfolio of over 100 individual monitoring and evaluation activities in over 25 countries. Curtis continues to play an important role in the MEASURE Evaluation Project as a Senior Evaluation Specialist with responsibilities for designing and leading evaluations related to international health and food security projects. She has particular expertise in the design and analysis of complex surveys and previously worked as a senior analyst with the Demographic and Health Survey Project at Macro International. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/household-decision-making-gender-and-groundnuts-in-zambia/ CATEGORIES:2015-16 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160115T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160115T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135105Z UID:35857-1452859200-1452862800@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Fertility and the Great Recession DESCRIPTION:Dr. Daniel Schneider\nAssistant Professor of Sociology\nUniversity of California\, Berkeley \nDaniel Schneider is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Berkeley. After receiving his Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University in 2012\, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at UC Berkeley from 2012-2014. Schneider’s research is focused on the family and social inequality. \nHis work has examined economic influences on family formation\, including work on labor union membership and marriage and asset ownership and marriage. His current research examines how the economic shocks of the Great Recession have affected relationship quality\, marriage\, and fertility. A second line of research focuses on household finances and particularly on household financial fragility. Dr. Schneider uses the non-public versions of data from NCHS\, in the Berkeley RDC\, to support his research. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/fertility-and-the-great-recession/ CATEGORIES:2015-16 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151120T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151120T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T182056 CREATED:20200103T135105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135105Z UID:35856-1448020800-1448024400@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:CPC Research Methods Series: Cleaning Up After Missing Data: Pitfalls and Priorities DESCRIPTION:Dr. Amy Herring\, Professor Of Biostatistics and CPC Faculty Fellow \nDr. Annie Green Howard\, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics \nProfessor Amy Herring investigates factors related to adolescent sexual development and the demography of sexual minorities in the United States\, studying trajectories of weight gain and cardiovascular health in a large population-based study in China\, learning about factors related to human fertility among older mothers\, improving the standards of care in neonatal intensive care units\, studying occupational exposures and Parkinson’s-type symptoms\, and investigating the roles of nutrition and exercise in healthy pregnancies. \nHerring is a member of CPC’s methodological consultation unit and advises and collaborates extensively with CPC Fellows working in population science. She is actively involved in the scientific community and she serves on FDA’s Bone\, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee and as an associate editor or editorial board member of a number of journals\, including Journal of the American Statistical Association and Environmental Health Perspectives. \nDr. Annie Green Howard graduated from UNC with a Ph.D. in May 2012. After working briefly as a postdoctoral research association at the Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center (CSCC) here at UNC\, she took a position as an Assistant Professor in the Biostatistics Department. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/cpc-research-methods-series-cleaning-up-after-missing-data-pitfalls-and-priorities/ CATEGORIES:2015-16 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR